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Do It Yourself Film Festival: When Animals Attack!
by Kerry Douglas Dye

published 7/26/99

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LeisureSuit.net, that most service-oriented of Webzines, is back with another Do It Yourself Film Festival, a recipe for creating a University-grade film festival in your very own living room. You thrilled to the Hot Marxist Guerilla Chick Film Festival, you kvelled to the Sterling Hayden Film Festival, now grab some popcorn, lock the pets in the den, and grab hold of your loved one (or whoever's handy) as we present the latest D.I.Y. Film Festival . . . When Animals Attack!

With Lake Placid being released last week, and Deep Blue Sea being released next week, it seems like the perfect time to drop by your local video store and grab some classics of the killer animal genre. Specifically, you want to look for films from the golden years of the Killer Animal era, the years after Jaws (1975) but before Alligator (1980). Jaws spurred the genre into existence with its high-quality widescreen portrayal of a great white shark menacing affluent white vacationers on an island. By Alligator, the genre had effectively (and I do mean effectively) been reduced to a joke. Both are great films, but we won't watch them here. No, for this film festival, you want to stick to what came in between--after the quality, but before the humor. With exceptions, where appropriate, noted, and presented in chronological order for your convenience.

SQUIRM (1976)
Who made it: Jeff Lieberman. He also wrote Neverending Story III. A.I.P. produced.
Actors who get menaced by the killer animals: Don Scardino and some other unfamiliar faces.
Animals that do the killing: Worms with nasty biting pincers.
Why they're killing: Electricity shooting into the ground has made them mean.
Why you should spend your $3.50: This is a terrific and icky film. Scardino plays a New Yorker who is visiting his girlfriend's family down South--he's quickly tagged as an outsider when he orders an egg cream at a lunch counter, and thus none of the locals will believe him when he tries to alert them to the fact that killer worms are rising up to devour human flesh.

Squirm ranks second only to the cockroach segment in Creepshow in terms of cringe factor. This flick pulls no punches in presenting mountains of wriggling worms pouring out of doorways, oozing out of faucets, filling up bathtubs, and wriggling into human flesh. Rick Baker, a young pup out to make a name for himself, did the first-class make-up effects. Also in the effects department was Bill Milling, a guy who would later make a substantial contribution to American cinema as director of Caged Fury (not to be confused with Chained Fury or Caged Heat), the sleaziest, goofiest, and most entertaining women in prison flick there is (another D.I.Y. film festival? Hmm . . .), and possibly Erik Estrada's best film.

Squirm is more quality than kitsch, but it's still worth the rental price. Just don't watch it while eating spaghetti or, you know, like, Gummi Worms.

GRIZZLY (1976)
Who made it: William Girdler, of Three on a Meathook fame. Co-written by Harvey Flaxman, who wrote the southern-fried indie classic Preacherman, once upon a time the highest-grossing indie film south of the Mason-Dixon line, if the publicists at Troma, Inc. are to be believed. Released by Columbia.
Actors who get menaced by the killer animals: Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel, B-players all.
Animal that does the killing: A 15-foot grizzly bear.
Why it's killing: Because it's big, and it can, and it has a taste for human flesh. Oh, yeah, and because people have "encroached upon his natural environment."
Why you should spend your $3.50: Duh, it's about a giant killer bear . . . you need another reason?

Of all the movies you'll be viewing in this Do It Yourself Film Festival, Grizzly is the most flagrant, plot-point by plot-point rip-off of Jaws. Instead of an ocean, you've got a national park, and instead of a police chief, you've got a ranger, but from that point on, including the early attacks, the cynical skepticism from the powers that be, the amateur hunters, and so on, it's Jaws every step of the way.

And this grizzly's as mean as Jaws, too. He's got this massive paw that can whack the heads off horses, and the limbs off nubile campers. He's got a taste for human flesh, and he's hungry for more. As in Jaws, the filmmakers are coy about showing the bear in all his glory. We're a good half way into the picture before we get a decent look at him (attacking a lookout post), and I've got to say--once you see him, he's kinda cute and cuddly!

Okay, so what if the 15-foot bear only looks about 7-feet tall and a snuggly pet for your young children? What's most important is that there are flying limbs, portentous warnings about the ecosystem . . . and there's a killer bear, damn it! What beats that?

FOOD OF THE GODS (1976)
Who made it: Schlock king Bert I. Gordon, God bless him. Supposedly based on a book by H.G. Wells. Release by A.I.P.
Actors who get menaced by the killer animals: Former revival preacher Marjoe Gortner, and Ida Lupino!
Animals that do the killing: Giant wasps, giant chickens, and giant rats.
Why they're killing: Because they ate some tapioca that bubbled up out of the ground, and it made them gigantic and ornery.
Why you should spend your $3.50: This is no big-studio product like Grizzly. Hell, it ain't even a spunky low-renter like Squirm. Known to genre fans as F.O.T.G. (I have no idea how to pronounce that--fans of this genre don't talk much), this is pure schlock, in its highest and most refined form.

Marjoe Gortner is a professional football player whose buddy is attacked and killed by giant wasps on an island. Then he himself is assaulted by a giant rubber chicken head. He makes it home from the island okay, but then, for no discernable reason except maybe a general sense of heroism, returns to do battle with the giant animals.

The bulk of the second half of the film is him and Ida Lupino and a biologist who takes time out of barricading windows to request casual sex (good for her!) and a married couple and some jerk who wants to market the mush that's making the animals big holed up in a farm house that's being besieged by rats a la Night of the Living Dead.

Watching this film you feel like you're seeing two different movies haphazardly edited together. One is about real houses and cars being attacked by fake giant animals. The other is about fake miniature houses and cars being attacked by real animals. The best by far is the giant rubber chicken head. The real shocker here is that, again, Rick Baker is listed on the special effects team. He must have been getting coffee or something.

The crappiest film of the festival--definitely save it until you're good and drunk.

DAY OF THE ANIMALS (1977)
Who made it: William Girdler (see Grizzly, above).
Actors who get menaced by the killer animals: Christopher George, Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel.
Animals that do the killing: Dogs, birds, bears . . . pretty much all the animals of the forest.
Why they're killing: That damn ozone layer.
Why you should spend your $3.50: Completeness, and to see Leslie Nielsen, as the resident jerk of the party, get eaten by a bear.

This is one of the grimmer entries on the list, but it's important because it deals with a real issue: the ozone layer, and the fact that its depletion will turn animals into vicious killers rising up against man. A bunch of campers get menaced, mauled and murdered by all sorts of different animals one sunny, squinty, high-ultraviolet radiation day.

It's The Hills Have Eyes meets The Birds meets Leslie Nielsen. Why not.

KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS (1977)
Who made it: John "Bud" Cardos. Co-written by Richard Robinson, who also had a hand in Piranha, below.
Actors who get menaced by the killer animals: William Shatner, Woody Strode.
Animals that do the killing: Killer crabs. No, wait, lemme check the video box . . . Sorry, killer spiders.
Why they're killing: Insecticides have killed off their food source.
Why you should spend your $3.50: Captain Kirk. Spiders. Admit it--you're already putting on your shoes to head out to the video store.

Shatner is Dr. "Rack" Hansen, who gets wind of the fact that tarantulas are rising up out of the ground and biting animals and people to death in alarming numbers. Woody Strode is a farmer whose land harbors a giant spider hill--they burn it down, but it's one of many, and soon, the spiders are everywhere and too numerous to contain.

If you thought the Tarantula in Wild Wild West was the height of cinematic art, as far as tarantulas are concerned at least, you really need to see Kingdom of the Spiders. It's scary, it's creepy, and it ends like so many of these films, with the principals holed up in a house barricading themselves against an onslaught, but in this one, when the night ends, and they finally venture out of their small realm of safety . . . Ho boy, it's the greatest final shot since Planet of the Apes!

This is quality cinema. Put it first or last in your D.I.Y. film festival. If you can find it on video.

THE PACK (1977)Who made it: Robert Clouse (Enter the Dragon) wrote and directed. Released by Warner Brothers.
Actors who get menaced by the killer animals: Doe John Baker, I mean, Joe Don Baker. Also Bibi Besch and Paul from "Cheers".
Animals that do the killing: Dogs.
Why they're killing: Vacationers have gone home and abandoned them and they're hungry.
Why you should spend your $3.50: There's a touch of class in this big studio production, and some decent suspense, too, like a terrific scene with a chick trapped in a convertible under attack by the pack . . . Joe Don Baker's a biologist on a vacation island who discovers that a pack of wild dogs is roaming around hungry and willing to do whatever it takes to get some feed.

Baker would be a banquet feast for a pack of any species, but there are also some vacationing bankers, a handful of locals, and Baker's girlfriend around to offer up a tasty selection of appetizers. Paul (at least once called "Glen") from "Cheers" puts in an appearance as a banker's son. Daddy is trying to score him a little action with a loose blonde brought along for the occasion, but sonny-boy seems more interested in taking long walks in the woods than in knocking boots with blondie--a timidity that ends up badly for both him and the blonde. That's a full 180 from the typical horror-movie convention of dying because you do have sex, and it shows that this movie is interested in being a cut above your average killer animal fare.

It still climaxes with the standard Night of the Living Dead siege on the farmhouse, but the final shot is one of empathy for the poor abandoned pooches, and suggests than man and dog can perhaps live in harmony.

As long as the dogs know their place, I guess.

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS (1977)
Who made it: Bert I. Gordon (see Food of the Gods, above). Another H.G. Wells adaptation--I had no idea Wells wrote so much crap. Released (natch) by A.I.P.
Actors who get menaced by the killer animals: Joan Collins . . . cool!
Animals that do the killing: Giant ants.
Why they're killing: They've eaten radioactive waste. It happens.
Why you should spend your $3.50: Because not only does Joan Collins--as a real estate salesman accompanying a group of marks (er, potential buyers) to a Florida island--get chased by ants, she also gets turned into a zombified ant slave when a giant queen ant blasts some pheromones on her.

Joan has called Empire of the Ants her worst acting experience ever--apparently the prestige of working on a project based on the talented author H.G. Wells didn't make up for all the sloshing around in swamps and getting farted on by giant plaster insects. But her pain is our pleasure . . . this picture is a hoot drunk or sober.

PIRANHA (1978)
Who made it: Joe Dante (you know, Gremlins, The Howling, Innerspace. Written by John Sayles, off a script by Richard Robinson (see Kingdom of the Spiders, above). Produced by Mr. Roger Corman.
Actors who get menaced by the killer animals: Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller, Barbara Steele, Paul Bartel . . . stop me before I mess on the keyboard!
Animals that do the killing: Piranhas.
Why they're killing: It's what piranhas do. Also, these piranhas are mutants specially bread for military applications.
Why you should spend your $3.50: You could take off your irony cap before watching this one--it's a genuinely clever and funny. Between Joe Dante and John Sayles, what do you expect?

Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies come across a crazed scientist in the crazed person of Kevin McCarthy who is all frantic because a bunch of mutant killer piranha have been let loose in the water of a resort town. A la Jaws, those with a financial interest in people getting in the water, like Dick Miller, don't want to hear about it, and so a lot of vacationers get chomped up, women and children alike, these fish being equal-opportunity carnivores.

The devouring scenes are pretty bloody and noisy, there's some gratuitous nudity, and the script is packed with fantastic dialogue. James Cameron made the reportedly terribly sequel--I'm embarrassed to say I've never seen it--for his first film, which gives Piranha one more claim to film history. A boffo picture.

THE BEES (1978)
Who made it: Er, Alfred Zacharias. He's sort of the Mexican Bert I. Gordon, only less prolific.
Actors who get menaced by the killer animals: John Saxon and John Carradine.
Animals that do the killing: Bees. Actually, smart bees.
Why they're killing: To convince man to mend his environmentally destructive ways. (I swear to God.)
Why you should spend your $3.50: There's a choice you have to make which is really no choice at all, and that's which killer bee movie from 1978 you want to see. The big-budget, Warner Brothers-released Irwin Allen epic The Swarm starring (deep breath) Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, José Ferrer, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, Fred MacMurray and Henry Fonda, or the Mexican-produced low-budget howler The Bees, starring both Johns, Saxon and Carradine?

You want to go with The Bees, the goofiest entry in the so-called "Scream and Swat" subgenre. In this film, the bees don't just kill, they have a social conscience. And when the Johns, playing scientists, manage to translate bee talk into English, they realize that the bees are going to destroy mankind if we don't shape up and try to live in harmony with nature.

In a bit of insectoid diplomacy, the bees hold world leaders hostage while Saxon tries to convince them to heed the bees' warning. This movie doesn't actually climax, Saxon just says, "I know you'll have to do what the bees want--you've got no other choice," and thus the resolution is cleverly implied, rather than, you know, shown, which would have been much more expensive.

So that's it, that's the film festival. I can't guarantee that you'll be able to find all these pictures on video, but you didn't want to waste a whole weekend anyway. Find the ones you can, get nice and drunk, don't worry about cholesterol, turn off your brain, and watch nature take revenge on humanity for a few hours. But fer Chrissakes, feed your goldfish before you hit play, okay??

I mean, you never know.


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Name: romero rodgers
Subject: HELLO, ROMERO
-- Mar 2, 2009 at 8:07AM
looking for savage harvest

Name: MystMoonstruck
Subject: Wallace's creature flick
-- Feb 26, 2009 at 5:06AM
The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978 TV movie)

From IMDb: Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, freeing dozens of dangerous beasts.

Name: ahmadshawkey
Subject: Re: savage harvest 1981
-- Jun 13, 2008 at 7:53PM
please....I like this film and i cannot find it so i need badly a little (LINK) to Download it....thank U

Name: ROMI
Subject: SAVAGE HARVEST
-- Apr 8, 2008 at 9:18AM
MAR 1ST ,2007 AT 1.00 REALLY I DONT KNOW ABOUT SAVAGE HARVEST DVD.

Name: Enrique
Subject: Savage Harvest - download
-- Mar 30, 2008 at 6:51PM
if you guys can't purchase the movie somewhere then just look for its torrent and download it...I got my copy of Savage Harvest the same way...super movie guys...the chimney scene did surprise me.

Name: wallace
Subject: creature flick
-- Mar 30, 2008 at 1:02AM
I trying so find the name of a movie from the 70's or 80's. A guy runs his truck into a zoo and the animals are loose. There is a scene where a bear and a tiger go toe to toe. can you name the movie please? Thanks

Name: sambit
Subject: Savage Harvest
-- Mar 12, 2008 at 12:18PM
Hey, if anyone could tell me where i can get a VHS / VCD / DVD of Savage Harvest 1981?

Name: Kerry Douglas Dye
Subject: Re:
-- Feb 15, 2008 at 9:45AM
i've just bought savage harvest,but i think it may well be a copy put onto dvd.i will check with the seller to see if this is the case.

Name: darren
Subject: creature features
-- Feb 15, 2008 at 7:56AM
where can i get savage harvest and shadow of kilamajaro on dvd

Name: manushree bhatt
Subject: savage harvest available
-- Jan 24, 2008 at 11:45PM
i want as soon as .....816 4001 steels ave west north york.on m3n2t8 ph.416-736-6026....i want please call me..thanks

Name: david lee ripley
Subject: shadow of mount kilaminjaro
-- Jan 17, 2008 at 10:32AM
whre can i get it ??? its about hungry drought driven baboons ... remember it being scary ! and full of gore ... yay.

Name: Shailesh Patel
Subject: Savage Harvest available DVD
-- Jan 7, 2008 at 1:26AM
I have just brought DVD of Savage Harvest from ebay last week. It is agood copy. Actually it is converted from VHS to DVD. It dose not have DVD quality but it is a good copy. I been looking for this since last 4 years.

Name: carrie
Subject: Savage Harvest
-- Jan 4, 2008 at 12:26AM
I got a copy from learmedia.com
It does have Japanese subtitles that can not be removed but I did not care, I wanted this movie.

Name: priyanka kaushik
Subject: savage harvest
-- Dec 17, 2007 at 3:11AM
if anybody can tell how can i find a dvd of this movie made in 1980 or 1981.
its about a drought in africa where all lions became man eaters because of lack of food n in this movie it shows how a forest officers family get stuck in there house n manage 2 escape from these man eaters.

Name: chandra sekhar
Subject: savage harvest 1981
-- Nov 12, 2007 at 5:42AM
Where can i find the DVD of SAVAGE HARVEST (1981).

mail me ... raja.paturu@gmail.co m

Name: ash
Subject: savage harvest 1981
-- Nov 3, 2007 at 3:25PM
anybody knows where i can find this movie/dvd/vhs?

Name: lavanya
Subject: savage harvest 1981
-- Oct 31, 2007 at 9:12AM
hi everybody , i read each one of ur post on this movie . iam searching for this movie 2. iam not geting it still. pls kindly help me . i need this movie very badly as my own copy

Name: kishor
Subject: savage harvest
-- Oct 8, 2007 at 7:15PM
i want the Disk of savage harvest (1981) from were i can find it on net

Name: Scott Mitchell
Subject: Savage Harvest 1981
-- Aug 29, 2007 at 1:40AM
Ok, you people. Enough is enough. This Savage Harvest business has dragged on for too long. Eric started all of this with his post way back on March 7, 2003. I myself contributed a post on July 11, 2003 and on
November 2, 2004. I explained all you needed to know about this movie and where you can get it. Now, enough. It is time to move on to something else. Perhaps the 1996 movie The Edge with Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins and a ferocious, vicious, man-eating Kodiak grizzly bear. Or perhaps ......

Name: sanjay chavak
Subject: savage harvest 1981
-- Jul 8, 2007 at 10:27AM
I am Sanjay Chavak from Mumbai ( INDIA ). This was just an unforgetable movie, I ahve ever seen. I myself have seen it many times also shown to all relatives and friends. Now I want to show it to my son but unable to find a copy.Please let me know if it is available anywhere.

Name: Gurudutt Joshi
Subject: Lion Attack movie "Savage Harvest"
-- May 29, 2007 at 10:16AM
The movie where a lion comes down the chimney is called "Savage Harvest".

Name: Filmmakr
Subject: Movie Questions
-- Feb 5, 2007 at 10:06AM
You can try posting on http://Crewgle.com for information on where to get these movies...

Name: ladymaya
Subject: Savage Harvest 1981
-- Jan 10, 2007 at 11:51PM
Did you know, there is a movies coming out jan 30, 2007 . "PRAY"
thay say its like savage harvest 1981!

Name: Mcameron
Subject: Savage Harvest
-- Jan 1, 2007 at 11:49AM
Looking for the above movie to purchase

Name: Kushal Joshi
Subject: Savage Harvest 1981
-- Oct 31, 2006 at 7:51PM
I have got a personal video tape version...of the movie ..soon will get it converted into a CD...the tape is 20 years old.my contact email-simplykushal@y ahoo.co.in

Name: Abhijit Nath
Subject: Savage Harvest 1981
-- Oct 31, 2006 at 6:23AM
Please provide me the on line address of the supplier to get the DVD or vcd of Savage Harvest (1981). Payment will be on line.

Name: Bhanu
Subject: Savage Harvest
-- Jul 3, 2006 at 3:24PM
I need this movie i have seen it many times n i want to show it to my grandfather.
where can i get it.
Bhanu

Name: sljaju@yahoo.com
Subject: savage harvest
-- Jun 30, 2006 at 3:26PM
My friend has seen that movie and wanted know where this DVD will be available
so I am searching for it
If u happeneto know about the availabity of the same pl do inform me by e mail Thank u
Shyam Jaju

Name: T.Basu
Subject: savage harvest 1981
-- Jun 26, 2006 at 6:06AM
Please provide me the on line address of the supplier to get the DVD of Savage Harvest (1981). Payment will be on line.

Name: An LS.n Reader
Subject: Do It Yourself Film Festival: When Animals Attack!
-- Mar 31, 2006 at 10:42AM
Aarthi,

Can I have the DVD of the movie "Savage Harvest" 1981 .I am searching for this movie for the past 1 year.

Name: sunil kumar
Subject: Re: Savage Harvest (1981)
-- Dec 27, 2005 at 4:56AM
Please provide me the on line address of the supplier to get the DVD of Savage Harvest (1981). Payment will be on line.

Name: Amit
Subject: Savage Harvest
-- Dec 14, 2005 at 9:33AM
Friends,

I'm also after a DVD of movie Savage Harvest (1981)..Pls let me know if anyone knows from to buy it.

Thanks
Amit

Name: soban
Subject: savage harvest 1981
-- Oct 1, 2005 at 1:24PM
hello friends i am also looking for savage harvest 1981 movies about lions attack.
pls let me know if any one can help
sperwin@gmail.co m

Name: Cathy
Subject: 1981 SAVAGE HARVEST
-- Sep 8, 2005 at 10:44PM
Sept. 8, 2005 I am also looking for a copy of this movie! I have not see it but my aunt told me how GREAT it is. Please contact me at Catsmlbx@aol.com if anyone knows where I can buy it!

Name: BILL MCDONALD
Subject: 1981 SAVAGE HARVEST
-- Sep 1, 2005 at 8:42PM
CAN YOU HELP ME LOCATE A COPY OF SAVAGE HARVEST W/ TOM SKERRITT IN THE 1981 VERSION

Name: maria
Subject: savage harvest
-- Jul 14, 2005 at 6:21PM
buy from this seller...cheapest i found on the internet at ioffer.com

http://www.ioffe r.com/viewItem.do?it emID=7459193&ref er=SELLER_CENTER

Name: aarthi
Subject: savage harvest
-- Jun 25, 2005 at 1:29PM
I ,myself gonna get only a copy and not original dvd.People selling are the ones copied on dvd+r or -r
Still...is its illegal..then u can goahead and buy it from ioffer.com

Name: The Editors Respond
Subject: Re: Savage harvest
-- Jun 25, 2005 at 1:25PM
That's illegal, dude. If people start buying and selling copyrighted movies here, we'll start deleting their posts. FYI.

But feel free to tell us where you found the DVD.

Name: Aarthi
Subject: Savage harvest
-- Jun 25, 2005 at 12:30PM
Found a place to buy this dvd,can make copies and ship to whoever wants it for a cost of 5$each+shipping.If anyone wants it ,i shall buy .thanx.

Name: GARY
Subject: SAVAGE HARVEST
-- Apr 22, 2005 at 12:38PM
IS THERE ANYWHERE A
DVD AND BE BOUGHT ON THIS MOVIE (SAVAGE HARVEST 1981)

Name: Shukra
Subject: Savage Harvest
-- Apr 10, 2005 at 2:03AM
hello there, searching for Savage Harvest like crazy.. not available on rental too.. no VHS no DVD. its an awesome movie, with the lions overcome by hunger and finally stalking humans in africa.
would like to know if there is any other animal attack film featuring lions and tigers, i distinctly remember watching one in which a plane crash takes its survivors into Big Cat territory. cant recall the name though... that one is as good, as if not better, than Savage Harvest!

Name: Chris
Subject: When Animals Attack
-- Jan 16, 2005 at 10:59AM
My favorite "nature gone amuck" film was always Tentacles. Yeah, nothing really happens, the special effects aren't particularly special, and it's not particularly scary, but you get Shelly Winters, John Huston, Claude Akins and (drum roll) HENRY FONDA!!! Yes, Henry Fonda actually agreed to be part of this mess!

Actually, the reason I like is because I like movies with scuba scenes in them. No, it's not a great film, but it is kinda entertaining, for a Jaws rip off.

Another good one is Great White, which is like THE Jaws rip off, so much so that Universal wouldn't allow it to be released in the US!

Name: Floridian
Subject: Savage Harvest
-- Jan 10, 2005 at 12:31AM
Yes, it's savage harvest. Excellent movie! Not on vhs or dvd at this time. I sure hope they put it out some day. This has been a 4 year hunt for me

Name: Scott
Subject: Savage Harvest
-- Nov 2, 2004 at 10:47PM
Arturo, it is definitely called Savage Harvest. It was made in 1981. Tom Skerritt and Michelle Phillips star in it. The lions are vicious and a very hungry male lion does indeed come down a chimney into a bedroom and ATTACK. When you search for this movie, type in Savage Harvest 1981 Tom Skerritt Michelle Phillips. There is another movie called Savage Harvest that was made in 1994 and is a horror flick. That is not the one you are looking for. Look on Ebay. Someone is always selling a copy there ....

Name: Arturo
Subject: Savage Harvest
-- Oct 29, 2004 at 5:26PM
I just noticed your message. I thought it was Savage Harvest but when I search it, another movie with the same name comes up. I still think it's Savage Harvest.

Name: Arturo
Subject: Lions
-- Oct 29, 2004 at 5:23PM
Do you remember a movie about an american family in Africa who gets set upon by lions? They spend the a good part of the movie locked in their house fending off lions. I thought it was Savage Harvest but that doesn't seem to be it.
Thanks

Name: vipul
Subject: savage harvest the lion attack
-- Sep 15, 2004 at 2:44AM
i want the vcd

Name: icha
Subject: the bees
-- Jun 7, 2004 at 4:17AM
I want this vcd

Name: Lokesh Singh Rathore
Subject: Savage Harvest a film touch my soul
-- May 2, 2004 at 3:12AM
I want this vcd or dvd.
It is a brilliant film.

Name: Ravindra Acharya
Subject: Savage Harvest Lion film
-- Feb 18, 2004 at 7:27AM
STAR MOVIES,HBO,.YOU WOULD MAKE GOOD AMOUNT OF MOOLAH IF YOU CAN GET THIS MOVIE ON BOARD.YOUR AD LINE COULD BE ' GET YOUR CHIMNEYS SHUT ....THERE COULD BE A LION TRYING TO GET IN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been searching for a copy of this film for the past 2 years .
It is a brilliant film .
Can someone get it ? It will sell like hot cakes !!!
Made in 1981 and not to bt mistaken with a horror film fo the same name

Name: ravindra Acharya
Subject: Savage Harvest 'lion from the chimney
-- Feb 18, 2004 at 7:20AM
I want this vcd or dvd

Name: ashish
Subject: The Ghost & The Darlness
-- Feb 10, 2004 at 2:05AM
its the movie on lions which attacks on slave working in middle of africa.
actor is Val Kilmer

Name: ruffo
Subject: purchase of savage harvest
-- Dec 3, 2003 at 10:18PM
i would to purchase this

Name: Scott Mitchell
Subject: Re: HBO Movie
-- Jul 11, 2003 at 3:39AM
The movie where a lion comes down the chimney is called "Savage Harvest". It was made in 1981 and has Tom Skerritt starring in it (he played Capt Dallas in Alien). Do not confuse this 1981 movie with a 1994 horror flick of the same name. This 1981 movie is very hard to find but you should be able to find a vhs or dvd copy for sale on Ebay. That's where I got my vhs copy of it. Go to Ebay and type "Savage Harvest Tom Skerritt vhs dvd" (or some slight variation)into the search box and see what comes up. Keep trying day after day if necessary. Sooner or later you will find someone putting a vhs or dvd copy up for auction. Savage Harvest 1981 with Tom Skerritt. Watch out for that male lion coming down the chimney in the bedroom. Yikes !!! Not something I would want to wake up to ........

Name: Kerry Douglas Dye Responds
Subject: Re: Frogs
-- Jun 30, 2003 at 4:33PM
Yeah, sure, from Sunday afternoons in the 80's. Swampy soap opera, a few animal attacks? But outside the range (thus no "The Birds", "Night of the Lepus", etc...)

Name: Dr. No
Subject: Frogs
-- Jun 30, 2003 at 3:48PM
Mr. Dye --

Have you seen "Frogs?" Perhaps it was made outside of you "Jaws" to "Alligator" ; range? My girlfriend made me watch this. As you might guess, it's about killer frogs. And since frogs aren't, like, strong, they mostly kill by, like, making people trip over scattered things and fall into ponds and various other Rube Goldbergisms.

Name: Kerry Douglas Dye Responds
Subject: Re: HBO Movie
-- Mar 7, 2003 at 3:29PM
A lion comes down the chimney?? That's awesome!

I have no idea what this movie is, but I'll definitely see it if one of our savvy readers can produce a title.

Name: Eric
Subject: HBO Movie
-- Mar 7, 2003 at 3:03PM
I am looking for the name of a movie that was on HBO in the 70's. It's about a family that's living in Africa and the cats (lions, leopards, etc.) start killing eveyone like crazy. I especially remember one scene when a lion comes down the chimney and attacks. Can someone please tell me the name of the movie and where I can rent it.

Name: james
Subject: jaws
-- Feb 19, 2003 at 12:02PM
I think jaws is the best film ever made!where can i find out more about the making of this movie.

Name: An LS.n Reader
Subject: nightstalker
-- Dec 31, 2002 at 3:28PM
Waht is the nightstalker in new mexico?

Name: Dominic
Subject: What website?
-- Dec 8, 2002 at 9:44PM
I am also interested in animal attack films and I would like to know what Steve Atlens website is?

Thanks

Name: dave
Subject: animal attacks marathon
-- Aug 27, 2002 at 6:34PM
i too your advice and watched these movies, and i thouht they were all great!! my favorite was empire of the ants. joan collns is jus the perfect bitch!!! thanks or the marathon advice!!!

Name: Katie
Subject: Do It Yourself Film Festival: When Animals Attack!
-- Aug 18, 2002 at 12:02AM
This site is pretty cute. I was lookin up stuff on megladon sharks and it brought me here. I think a movie on megladon sharks would be awesome. Although we really don't know that much about them besides the fact that they are an ancestor of the great white...and well....huge. A problem would be that fact that there ARE soo many corny low budget animal flicks...they'd have to make the movie reallllly different in order for people to be interested.

Name: devin
Subject: ok you got me on my bad typing and spelling
-- Jul 31, 2002 at 9:45PM
you got me i was looking up something and came back to your site yes i will admit im the worst typer and speller out there but there will be a movie about megs p.s. i was not thinking about it till today

Name: The Editors Respond
Subject: Re: Ha Ha Editor think you knnnow it all
-- Jul 31, 2002 at 9:33PM
I guess I'm not spending enough time on "STEVE ATLENS WEB SIGHT". Sorry this has been eating at you for the past 14 months -- at least in the interim you learned how to spell "prehistoric&qu ot;.

Name: Devin
Subject: Ha Ha Editor think you knnnow it all
-- Jul 31, 2002 at 8:38PM
THEY ARE MAKING A MOVIE ABOUT A PREHISTORIC GREAT WHITE SHARK IT WILL BE CALLED ANGLE AND ITS ON STEVE ATLENS WEB SIGHT SO YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW IT ALL HA SHOWS WHAT YOU KNOW

Name: gary Citron
Subject: Squirm Worms on E-Bay?
-- Mar 23, 2002 at 1:31AM
I went on a website that told me that you can get the fake worms that was in the movie Squirm somewhere(I checked E-bay)with no results any ideas?

Name: jesse
Subject: day of the animals
-- Oct 18, 2001 at 7:45PM
i am looking for a print 16mm or 35mm of DAY OF THE ANIMALS. i am hoping to rent or buy the print. if anyone has any info please email me. thanx!

Name: K Harman
Subject: Funny
-- Sep 30, 2001 at 12:22AM
I was looking up some movie posters: Willard, Ben, Bug, SSSssss, and found this page. A real blast.

Name: devin
Subject: respond to editor
-- Apr 28, 2001 at 9:08PM
If you read my mesage corectly I said they should make a movie about megladon Great White shark the book though was the trench and it had me on the edge of my bed reading it

Name: The Editors Respond
Subject: Re: megladon sharks
-- Apr 27, 2001 at 1:40PM
Please. A movie about a killer great white shark? Who'd stand on line to see that??

Name: devin
Subject: megladon sharks
-- Apr 27, 2001 at 1:37PM
They made All kinds of dino films why cant hollywood get the picture that we would like to see a big budget film on theese prehorstic Great white sharks.there is a great book out called white shark that with a few big names and good quality special effects they would have a mega top grossing film.IF IT WAS DONE RIGHT.

Name: Kerry Douglas Dye Responds
Subject: Re: One More for the DIY Fest
-- Oct 30, 2000 at 6:47PM
Excellent call. It was on my list, but I couldn't find the damn thing on video or anywhere else. I haven't seen it since I was a wee boy, so I didn't dare try to write about it.

(Note for monster movie fans: I just checked Amazon.com, and it looks like "Tentacles" is being released on video in December. Very cool.)

Name: Amyellyn
Subject: One More for the DIY Fest
-- Oct 30, 2000 at 5:53PM
"Tentacles." John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda, and Claude Akins (!) are menaced by a giant octopus. Wouldn't you know it, a kiddie sailing regatta is scheduled for prime killing time. Not to be missed.

Name: Kerry Douglas Dye Responds
Subject: Re: "Squirm"
-- May 18, 2000 at 7:20PM
If you're the *real* Jeff Lieberman, I'm a big Jeff Lieberman fan and you should contact me at kerry@leisuresuit.net. If you're just some *other* Jeff Lieberman than I'm not interested.

Name: Jeff lieberman
Subject: "Squirm"
-- May 18, 2000 at 6:52PM
I'm Jeff Lieberman. The real question is, 'who the fuck' are you?

Name: G. Noel Gross
Subject: Check it out!
-- May 15, 2000 at 5:14PM
Any festival that'd include classics like Piranha, Squirm and Food of the Gods is tops in my book. Great choices.

Name: jess
Subject: when animals attack
-- Jul 31, 1999 at 7:00AM
how could you leave out the christopher atkins thriller, shakma? nothing, nothing, is scarier than a killer baboon running top speed, knuckles pounding down on the ground, teeth and gums bared with its blood-red ass galloping at you at 45 mph? gotta love that...

Name: Kerry Douglas Dye Responds
Subject: Re: when animals attack
-- Jul 31, 1999 at 3:32AM
I gotta confess, I had never heard of this picture. Of course, when I looked it up, it came out in 1990, which is well out of the 1975-1979 time frame I was talking about.

That said, I note that both Roddy McDowell and Amanda "Nightmare on Elm St./Better Off Dead" Wyss (who I'd always assumed just like, dissolved when the 80's ended) are in it, so it sounds like it could be a real winner.

On your recommendation, I'll make a point of renting it.

Name: Kerry Douglas Dye Responds
Subject: Re: Animal DIY
-- Jul 27, 1999 at 2:37AM
Two copies of Leviathan? Awesome! That'll come in real handy when I do my George P. Cosmatos film festival.

When I first got up to school, Kim's was just about the coolest thing I had ever seen . . . of course, guys selling nuts on the street impressed the hell out of me too.

Glad you liked the article.

Name: Johnny5Ace
Subject: Re: Animal DIY
-- Jul 26, 1999 at 10:40PM
My video store has "You've Got Mail" and 2 copies of "Leviathan."

This was a terrific piece. I think Kim's should devote a section to your DIY video ingredients. God knows I could never find anything in their "lighting director" section.

Name: The Editors Respond
Subject: Re: ozone
-- Jul 26, 1999 at 4:23AM
Hey, J. Kenneth, we picked you as Caption of the Week winner this week specifically so you *wouldn't* go on a killing spree.

At least not on us. Anyone else you wanna kill, hey--free country.

Name: J. Kenneth
Subject: Re: ozone
-- Jul 26, 1999 at 3:38AM
Kewl.

Yup, got me my very own LS.n suitable-for-framing License To Kill (some restrictions apply).

Hey, and thanks for picking my caption. Armpits -- I tell ya, nothing's funnier than armpits.

Name: J. Kenneth
Subject: ozone
-- Jul 26, 1999 at 3:31AM
Dammit, I'm pissed about the ozone layer, too. Does this mean I can go on a killing spree? Oh, please, may I?

I'm especially interested in killing Leslie Nielsen.


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